The list goes on. The previous rabbi in Potomac was the president of the Rabbinical council of America, it is an OU synagogue. It is a 500 member synagogue Beth Shalom. In Potomac is Rabbi Nissan Antine. That’s my response.

From a Jewish Telegraph Agency article (2012):

Both Lopatin and Weiss cited Chovevei’s warm relationship with the Orthodox Union, which has hundreds of member synagogues (including Young Israel affiliates). Most Chovevei pulput rabbis are at OU shuls. However, the OU’s executive vice president emeritus, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, went out of his way to note that the OU does not actually have any formal relationship with Chovevei.

The Jewish Week (2011):

Rabbi Weiss also downplays the acceptance issue. “It’s a narrow, parochial issue,” he said. “Many of our students are indeed on the OU [Orthodox Union] payroll [at member congregations]. I can’t say that’s one of our challenges because it’s not a reason why guys wouldn’t choose this program.”

Jewish Telegraph Agency (2009):

Here’s a note we got from YCT’s director of continuing rabbinic education and community programming, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot

More than a dozen YCT graduates proudly serve as rabbis and assistant rabbis in OU synagogues throughout the country. These include such prominent synagogues as Congregation Kehillath Jeshurun (NYC), East Denver Orthodox Synagogue (Denver, CO), Congregation Beth Shalom, (Potomac, MD), Kehillat Kesher (Engelwoood,NJ), Congregation Shearith Israel (Nashville, TN),Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, CA) and Congregation Beth Israel, the only Orthodox synagogue in the reemerging city of New Orleans, LA.

In addition, dozens of our graduates serve in other Orthodox pulpits, Hillel and day school positions. Moreover, two of our recent graduates are serving in the position of Jewish Learning Initiative (JLI) directors, a program sponsored by the OU for Orthodox students on campus, at Princeton University and Brandeis University. A 2009 YCT graduate will soon be taking on the position of director of JLI at Harvard University.

Our placement offices continue to receive more requests than we can fill as communities in the field recognize the outstanding qualities of our program and the many fine young YCT graduates who are entering the field to devote themselves to the Jewish people and Torah. These communities simply ignore misinformed and mean-spirited hearsay and gossip. A correction and an apology to the OU, YCT, its graduates and all those communities throughout the country is certainly in order.

Since Satmar/UTA/R. Yechezkel Roth, Karlsburg Rav of Borough Park gave semicha to Ysoscher Katz, leading YCT faculty member, and hasn’t withdrawn it, does that mean that Satmar/UTA/Karlsburg Kashrus/ Psakim are not acceptable?

Since Lubavitch has not disassociated itself from its Chasid R. Chaim Rapoport of the UK, who is a longtime honored faculty member of YCT, does that mean that Lubavitcher kashrus and rulings can’t be trusted?

These so called shuls that have lady rabbi’s, do they pasken shailos for men as well? After davening, do the men go up and shake the female rabbi’s hand? Are these so called shuls mixed seating? How does it work?

There are extreme radicals, whose names you may recognize from the news, but there are also others who are more moderate, who don’t make headlines. It is important to distinguish between the two, in the interest of fairness.

It also should be noted that (all or most) of the congregations involved are peripheral – some in terms of geography, others in terms of ideology.

Also, talking about people who are at OU congregations as being on the OU payroll seems quite misleading. The OU doesn’t pay rabbis/employees of its member congregations for their local work in the congregations (perhaps with rare exception, e.g. the college outreach workers) – the congregations themselves pay them.

When will Satmar and R. Yechezkel Roth, Karlsburg Rav of Boro Park take action against Ysoscher Katz, leading faculty member at YCT, who advertises semicha from UTA Satmar/R. Yechezkel Roth (see YCT website)?

When will Lubavitch break with UK Lubavitcher R. Chaim Rapoport, who has lectured extensively at YCT for years?

When you attack the OU so extensively and vociferously, but, at the same time, give Chasidic offenders a free ride, such inconsistency and hypocrisy casts a great shadow of doubt on motives/hidden agendas of the attackers.

I hear what you’re saying but things are more complicated than you make it out to be. There are things being done shtiller heit. This is not the forum to bring these things out. The wrong people get the wrong ideas.

Big difference is that R’ Roth doesn’t say that Katz is affiliated with him, and everyone understands that whatever Katz does is not representative of R’ Roth. He doesn’t need to “take action” against Katz, because there is no action to take. On the other hand, the OU has an affiliation with these temples, so it needs to (and will) take action.

Anyone who knows who R’ Roth is also knows that he has nothing to do with Katz. The fact that Katz learned by him before going off the derech doesn’t require R’ Chatzlel to release a statement, any more than he would have to if (when) Katz gives a heter to drive on Shabbos or to intermarry.

There are some communities that once you become a member you will not get expelled unless you are mechalel shabbos BeFarhesya or you intermarry or you don’t do a bris for a eligible child.
ALL other Aveiros do not get you expelled even though, it goes without saying, that they do not approve of the ‘members’ actions.
The OU may have rules, set by the original founders, as to when its members get expelled. If it does not fit the criteria
they won’t get expelled. This does NOT mean that the OU or anyone else approves or agrees with what they are doing.

The are many many other considerations to take into account before one expels anyone from any place (including but not limited to expelling a student from a school no matter what he or she did)

another posek BH who cannot quote a source. we don’t follow jewish law, we follow halakha and ethical values. as a matter of choice, but not halakha, i avoid many places where i would not be caught dead.

How do you defend the Lashon Horah involved in posting this list. Nobody in the Matzav world is accidently Davening in these Ships, your only interest is to shame these Shuls and the OU and put them down. Pure Sinas Chinam.